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Plumbing Apprenticeship Program To Begin September 9
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Date: 04 SEP 2003
DE QUEEN – Barbara Lacefield, Director of Business and Industry Training at Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, has announced that the College’s Plumbing Apprenticeship program will begin Tuesday, September 9, at 6:30 PM at CCCUA’s De Queen campus, located at the intersection of US 70 and Arkansas 399.
The instructor for the apprenticeship program is Bob Lundsberg, owner of Tazz Plumbing of De Queen. Lundsberg has owned Tazz Plumbing for nearly 3 years. Prior to coming to De Queen, he worked with his father’s plumbing business in McKinney, Texas, for eight years. He has been a licensed Master Plumber for 16 years. Lundsberg says the program will cover water supply and drain piping, natural gas piping and waste gas venting. It will also incorporate a section on blueprint reading and other related classroom-based instruction.
Lacefield said, “Participation in the plumbing apprenticeship program is a U.S. Department of Labor requirement for everyone who is working in that field who doesn’t have a current Plumber’s License. The best thing about this program is that registration is open entry/open exit, so students can enter the program anytime during the year and pick up where they left off, if they have to stop attending class for a time, because of personal or job-related matters.” She added that students must be employed and under the direct supervision of a Master Plumber to enroll in the program. The program is a designed for apprentices to attend apprenticeship training classes one night per week and apply their skills learned in on-the-job training. To register for the program, contact Barbara Lacefield at 800-844-4471, Extension 104.
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Higher Learning.
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